It's always great to see new fresh faces in the movies, especially when the script is good. And the new Baby Mama is both fresh and good.
Tina Fey and Amy Peohler both from Saturday Night Live, anchor this really nice comedy about a woman that can't conceive a baby, and the woman she chooses to be a surrogate mother. Kate (Fey) is a uptight, 37 year old corporate VP for a health food store chain whose never married and now physically cannot have a baby. After seeking out every option, she decides to go with Angela, (Peohler) a from-the-other-side-of-the-tracks-girl to be her surrogate. Both are really funny and have great chemistry in this movie.
There are side plots a plenty and a great supporting cast too. Steve Martin, Greg Kinnear, Sigourney Weaver, and Maura Tierney. All are good, especially Martin who plays this eccentric, ego manic founder of the health food store chain. His character is reminiscent of Jay Peterman from Seinfeld.
Tina Fey is a fresh face in the movies. She is both beautiful and funny and that is a lethal combination. In Baby Mama, she plays it more straight, but it is so good to see someone new getting lead roles in romantic comedies. She is likable and believable. You're cheering for her all the way. I hope to see more of her at the box office in good roles.
Baby Mama movies along nicely and doesn't waste a lot of time getting to the point, and that's a separator for this movie. Fun, not juvenile, this is a funny adult comedy but the young audience will like it to. It walks the line perfectly. Should point this out. Baby Mama I feel has been packaged poorly. This movie may look on TV commercials like it's some silly, soulless, bathroom humor flick, but it's not. Baby Mama at times slightly flirts with going the wrong way, but pulls itself back on track at every turn. It does have a SNL feel to it but is able to rise above the fold and stay true. What Baby Mama does real well is that it's not designed for 2 or 3 huge laughs in a few scenes, it's just good from start to finish.
Fresh faces make Baby Mama great! Great on a date too.
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